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Airdate:
Sept. 21, 1987
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As
the third season opens, MacGyver and the Phoenix
Foundation are guarding the Ming Dragon, a treasure
of China. MacGyver is in the hotel reviewing
security procedures when he sees Lisa, a woman
he had loved and lost two years ago. A flashback
reveals how MacGyver was in the Baltics helping
a resistance group destroy a weapons factory.
During the assignment, Lisa and MacGyver developed
a relationship that proved short lived as she
was killed when leaving the factory. Back in
the present, MacGyver receives a message from
Lisa: She is alive and she wants to meet him.
They meet and she explains how she was not killed
after the mission but instead she was captured.
In a prison camp, she met Major Nikolai Kossoff,
a disgraced KGB agent who was being punished
for his failures. Now, Lisa and Kossoff want
MacGyver to help them defect. MacGyver and Jack
Dalton, who is at the hotel performing a magic
show, proceed with the defection. Unfortunately,
Lisa is captured by General Racoubian and Tanya.
Racoubian tells MacGyver to steal the Ming dragon
or Lisa will be killed.
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Guest
Cast
Bruce
McGill as Jack Dalton, James Hong as Chu, Anthony
DeLongis as Kossoff, Walter Marsh as Racoubian,
Leslie Bevis as Tanya Lyaschenka
Special
Guest Appearance
Elyssa
Davalos (who would become a semi-regular as
Nikki Carpenter later in the season) as Lisa
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Writer
Jerry Ludwig
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Director
Cliff
Bole
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Airdate:
Sept. 28, 1987
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MacGyver and Jack successfully bypass security
and steal the Ming dragon. However, rather then
Just handing over the dragon to Tanya, MacGyver
and Jack elude her through Chinatown and then
arrange for a trade on their terms. The trade
goes according to plans and Lisa is freed. Lisa
then begs MacGyver to help her rescue Kossoff.
They proceed to Racoubian's house and are soon
captured when Lisa reveals herself as a soviet
agent. Racoubian explains how Lisa, who is not
really married to Kossoff, has been working
for their side even during MacGyver's mission
to the Baltics. The soviet general then discusses
his plan: Chinese-Soviet relations will be strengthened
when a soviet representative returns a treasure
that had been stolen by MacGyver, an American.
Lisa, who really does love MacGyver, helps Jack
and MacGyver to escape. Unfortunately, Lisa
is shot and she dies in MacGyver's arms. The
Phoenix troubleshooter then retrieves the "real"
Ming dragon which he had hidden earlier in a
Chinatown shop.
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Guest
Cast
same
as part I
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Writer
Jerry
Ludwig
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Director
Cliff
Bole
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Airdate:
Oct. 5, 1987
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MacGyver,
who is now living on a houseboat, sees a picture
of Jimmy Kendall and his minor league baseball
team in a newspaper. MacGyver goes to warn Jimmy
(last seen in the second season episode "The
Eraser"), who had been placed in the witness
protection program after testifying against
the mob. Unfortunately, Ralph, the mob thug
credited with killing Kendall, also sees Jimmy's
picture and realizes that in order to maintain
his position in the mob, he needs to make sure
that Jimmy stays dead. MacGyver is talking to
Jimmy, now known as Lou Rizzo, when Ralph arrives.
They evade the mobster and return to MacGyver's
boat. Jimmy soon receives a phone call from
Ralph explaining how Jimmy's daughter Susan
and grandson Brian will be killed unless Jimmy
gives himself up. Jimmy knocks out MacGyver
and goes to meet Ralph. Jimmy then frees his
family but is shot by Ralph. Meanwhile, Pete
traces Ralph's phone number which in turn leads
MacGyver to Jimmy's location. MacGyver is also
shot, but he recovers and helps Jimmy to capture
Ralph.
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Guest
Cast
Joe
Santos as Jimmy Kendall, Al Ruscio, Rebecca
Balding as Susan, Richard Jamison as Ralph,
Alex Bruhanski as Sal.
Special
Guest Appearance
Henry
"Hank" Aaron.
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Writer
Stephen
Kronish
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Director
James
L. Conway
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Airdate:
Oct. 19, 1987
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As
part of a mapping expedition in Alaska, MacGyver
is planting boundary markers when he comes across
an apparently abandoned ship in the middle of
the forest. Once aboard, he finds a scared woman
cowering in the depths of the ship. He soon
understands what she is afraid of when they
are attacked by a creature resembling the legendary
bigfoot. They escape from the ship and head
into the wilderness. MacGyver learns that the
woman's name is Karin Graff. She had stowed
away on the ship with her cousin back in the
Baltics, Upon arriving in Alaska, the creature
came aboard and killed her brother. The next
morning. MacGyver and Karin find the missing
ship's crew illegally tapping into the Alaskan
oil pipeline. Karin is captured when MacGyver
goes to take a closer look. He frees her and
then drops the remainder of his markers as a
distress signal. MacGyver, who is then forced
to tangle with the creature, defeats and unmasks
the costume clad crew member. Bench, the ship's
captain, arrives and is about to shoot MacGyver.
However, Pete, responding to the distress call,
arrives in a helicopter and saves his friend.
At the end of the episode, MacGyver and Pete
are dismissing the bigfoot legend when they
hear a mysterious howling. .
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Guest
Cast
Katey
Wright as Karin Graff, Michele Goodger as Joanna,
Nicholas Rice as Bench, Byron Chief-Moon, Len
George, Chief Khotlacha, Ken Kirzinger as the
creature
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Writer
Stephen
Kandel
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Director
Michael
Vejar
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Airdate: Oct. 26, 1987
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Danny Barrett, an insurance investigator, contacts
his friend MacGyver and asks for help in breaking
into a foreign consulate's computer system.
He further explains that he has been investigating
a diplomat named Amir Sumal and the computer
information will hopefully tie Sumal to a number
of Jewelry heists. While walking to his car,
Danny is struck and killed by a speeding automobile,
MacGyver, deciding to "nail" the thief who killed
his friend, sneaks into a party at Sumal's consulate.
While breaking into the consulate computer,
he runs into a woman who has also snuck into
the party. The two party crashers are discovered
but manage to escape. MacGyver soon learns that
the woman is Nikki Carpenter, Danny's sister.
They decide to work together to stop Sumal by
forcing him to be caught red handed pulling
another robbery. Although Sumal's diplomatic
immunity will keep him from being arrested,
MacGyver hopes that at least the diplomat will
be deported. Sumal is tricked into believing
that Pete is a major diamond broker named Blaine
and that Nikki and MacGyver are criminals planning
on stealing Blaine's collection. MacGyver then
sneaks into the consulate and borrows Sumal's
stolen diamonds. Therefore, Sumal, who involves
himself in the Blaine robbery, ends up stealing
his own loot. Upon returning to the consulate
from the burglary, Sumal's briefcase (with a
little help from a MacGyver triggered device)
opens and the diamonds spill out in front of
Ambassador Vulnay. The ambassador vows that
Sumal will be punished in his own country.
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Guest
Cast
Elyssa
Davalos as Nikki Carpenter (a recurring role
in the second season), Aharon Ipale as Amir
Sumal, Jonathan Pallone, Anthony Stambouleth
as Ambassador Vulnay, Terry David Mulligan
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Writer
Rick
Husky
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Director
Alan
Simmons
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Airdate:
Nov. 2, 1987
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MacGyver
and Nikki are sent to recover an experimental
stealth craft that crashed in East Germany.
At the same time, the Soviets, with the help
of a psychic named Starkoss, are also seeking
the downed craft. The soviet soldiers, however,
locate the plane first, Starkoss then approaches
MacGyver and Nikki (claiming that his "gift"
told him they were there) and offers to help
destroy the plane if they will help him defect.
MacGyver is able to destroy the craft and then
the three of them escape in a MacGyver built
hot air balloon. Starkoss, not wanting to be
poked and prodded by American scientists interested
in his gift, decides not to return to the United
States with the two Phoenix employees. .
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Guest
Cast
Elyssa
Davalos as Nikki Carpenter, Walter Gotell as
Starkoss, Morris Panych as Colonel Markov, Peter
Nicholas
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Writer
Calvin Clements, Jr.
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Director
Michael
Vejar
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Airdate:
Nov. 9, 1987
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Jack Dalton leaves a frantic phone message for
his friend MacGyver: He is in Smiley, Arkansas
and needs help. After making the phone call,
Jack causes a commotion in a restaurant and
is arrested. MacGyver arrives in Smiley and
is also arrested by Sheriff "Bull" Bodine when
the lawman finds out that the Phoenix troubleshooter
is looking for Jack. Once inside the Smiley
prison, MacGyver learns that Jack is trying
to locate $5 million dollars that was stolen
by a famous robber. Jack had been led to Arkansas
by his Uncle Charlie, who shared a prison cell
with the robber. MacGyver and Jack escape from
prison but are caught when Lyle Hudson, a man
MacGyver met while looking for Jack, turns them
in. The sheriff, Hudson and the prison warden,
aware that the robber's loot is hidden in the
area, take MacGyver and Jack to the Smiley mine.
The money is located but never recovered as
the mine soon caves in trapping the local officials.
MacGyver and Jack narrowly escape the mine.
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Guest
Cast
Bruce McGill as Jack Dalton, Lance LeGault (The
A-Team) "Bull" Bodine, Luke Askew, Eugene
Butler, Daniel Faraldo as Pepe, Diane Robin
as Louella
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Writer
David Rich
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Director
James
L. Conway
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Airdate:
Nov, 16, 1987
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MacGyver is climbing the Widowmaker mountain
with his friend Mike Foster (last seen played
by a different actress in "Jack of Lies"). Mike
tells MacGyver how she wants to be more than
friends. MacGyver, fearing commitment, explains
that he is not ready. They resume their climb,
Mike trips, and falls to her death. Since he
had hurt Mike emotionally, MacGyver mistakenly
blames himself for her death and isolates himself
on the mountain. Nikki soon arrives to see if
she can help him. Unknown to Nikki, however,
vicious assassin Murdoc (who survived the explosion
at the end of "Partners") has followed her up
the mountain in hopes of taking his revenge
on MacGyver. Murdoc arrives and torches the
cabin that Nikki and MacGyver are in. They escape
to Nikki's car only to be caught in one of Murdoc's
traps. MacGyver frees them from the car and
they proceed to climb down the mountain. Murdoc
follows them down and then falls to his apparent
death when MacGyver blocks the assassins attempt
to stab him.
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Guest
Cast
Michael
Des Barres as Murdoc, Elyssa Davalos as Nikki
Carpenter, Lisa Bayliss as Mike Foster
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Teleplay
John
Whelpley
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Story
Harv
Zimmel
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Director
Michael
Vejar
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Airdate:
Nov. 23, 1987
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MacGyver has returned to his alma matter, Western
Tech, to Judge the annual barricade contest.
The purpose of the contest is for the students
to build barricades that their classmates can
not penetrate. Former contest winners include
MacGyver (in 1973) and Professor Julian Ryman
(in 1958). The Professor's son David, who is
trying desperately to impress his overly critical
father, is one of the current student contestants.
Before the contest begins, however, Jeff Kramer,
a fellow student cheats and spies on David.
Therefore, Jeff manages to defeat David in the
contest. David, upset over losing, runs off.
MacGyver soon learns that Kramer cheated when
he challenges the boys quick penetration of
David's barricade. In the meantime, a distraught
David has holed himself up in the physics lab
and built a bomb. What David does not realize
is that the physics lab is below a nuclear lab.
David collapses and MacGyver and the professor
disarm the bomb. The professor, realizing how
he has neglected his son, plans on sticking
with David who will be receiving some much needed
therapy.
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Guest
Cast
Larry
Dobkin as Professor Julian Ryman, Andrew Sabiston
as David Ryman, Lisa Wilcox as Janet, John Cameron
Mitchell as Aaron
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Writers
Leonard
Mlondinow and Scott Rubenstein
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Director
James
L. Conway
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Airdate:Dec.
21, 1987
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Nikki
Carpenter, who is officially voted into the
Phoenix Foundation in this episode, is walking
in front of the post office when a man runs
out into the street and bumps into her. He
takes one look at her and then steals her
purse and Jumps into a car. Nikki drives off
and misses seeing the post office explode.
Later, Erik Holland, the man who had planted
the post office bomb, realizing that Nikki
can tie him with the post office bombing,
gets her address from her purse and then tries
unsuccessfully to run her down with his car.
Meanwhile, Erik Holland's boss, a man known
as The Major, takes responsibility for the
post office bombing and vows that unless terrorist
leader Marcus is released from prison, his
people will blow up an entire street block.
MacGyver soon stops a second attempt on Nikki's
life when he arrives in her apartment and
stops an assailant from choking her. Although
the assailant escapes, he leaves behind a
clue: asbestos wire. MacGyver and Nikki, connecting
the murder attempts against her with the Marcus
terrorist threat, trace the wire to Webber
Pyrotechnics. Arriving at Webber, they discover
Holland's body but also trigger an explosive
trap. MacGyver escapes from the trap and finds
clues that the terrorist bomb is inside of
a post office truck. MacGyver arrives downtown
and stops the Major. Unable to disarm the
bomb, MacGyver attempts to drive it out of
the city but runs out of time. The explosion
is finally contained when the Phoenix troubleshooter
fills the truck with cement.
Note:
It is revealed in this episode that Nicole
"Nikki" Carpenter (birthdate: May 30, 1959)
was widowed when her husband was killed in
a mob hit meant for her. Therefore, Nikki
is hesitant to get close to MacGyver (or even
ask him for help) in fear that she will "jinx"
him like she "jinxed" her husband.
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Guest
Cast
Elyssa
Davalos as Nikki Carpenter, Dale Wilson as Erik
Holland, Frank Ferrucci as The Major, Bruce
Harwood as Juice
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Writer
W. Reed Moran
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Director
Cliff Bole
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